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  1. @tanghaibao just joking, but i do prefer "syntelog" because it cracks me up. about 23 hours ago from web in reply to tanghaibao
  2. dr. @tanghaibao congrats on the phd, and the paper http://bit.ly/7wH1HU but next time, please use the word "syntelog" 4:53 PM Dec 9th from web
  3. RT @jermth: RT @gingi0: The climate change debate, visualized. http://bit.ly/5EFCg6 /by @infobeautiful #infographics #datavis 5:59 PM Dec 7th from web
  4. released latest pyfasta: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfasta/ using nose test generator functions to get > 99% coverage #genomics #tdd 2:48 PM Dec 3rd from web
  5. cool: http://github.com/paulsmith/geonode #geos wrapper in javascript ( node.js / #v8 ) 10:51 AM Dec 3rd from web
  6. RT @jermth: RT @dgmacarthur, @nanopore: Total DNA sequence output to 2004 is now produced, globally, every 16 minutes. #bioinformaticsco ... 9:37 AM Dec 3rd from web
  7. back from vacation. wading through email and trying to get back in work mode. 9:54 AM Dec 2nd from web
  8. heading to the galapagos/ecuador. gonna ride some turtles or eat some finches or something. #vacation. 6:05 PM Nov 17th from web
  9. added custom backends and CLI for in pyfasta: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyfasta/ next version: better support for short reads. 8:43 AM Nov 17th from web
  10. having good tests even on small project makes big refactorings a lot simpler. 11:37 AM Nov 15th from web
  11. been hacking on my pet project: #python access to tokyo cabinet table database via #cython . http://github.com/brentp/tctable/ 4:34 PM Nov 14th from web
  12. @kueda that's really cool! simple and effective. 7:29 PM Nov 13th from web in reply to kueda
  13. found a somewhat pythonic wrapper for tokyocabinet tables: http://bit.ly/4e7irV the one in tc on pypi has very little sugar. 9:48 AM Nov 12th from web
  14. @sgillies traffic on I-70!? surely you jest. try driving in cali. 9:44 AM Nov 12th from web in reply to sgillies
  15. useful bash alias: alias doctest="nosetests --with-doctest --doctest-extension=.txt" \ allows testing single files with: doctest afile.py 8:42 PM Nov 9th from web
  16. using #matplotlib axes_grid toolkit to play with some data http://syntelog.com/t/methylation.png 4:00 PM Nov 6th from web
  17. video of lightning talks on #python in science followed by guido q & a: http://bit.ly/nFOb9 the copperhead project seems very interesting 5:44 PM Nov 5th from web
  18. @howardbutler i vote that you keep gdalbook.org and start it going. 4:38 PM Nov 5th from web in reply to howardbutler
  19. gave one of many lightning talks at #py4science on genomics with pyfasta, rtree, genometools. then @gvanrossum fielded questions on #python 6:45 PM Nov 4th from web
  20. reproducible genomics research!? (uses python-based galaxy project to analyze "windshield splatter") http://bit.ly/1yorGU 8:08 AM Nov 2nd from web
  • Name brent pedersen
  • Location berkeley, ca
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  • Bio bio/geo-programmer. coffee addict. recovering endurance athlete.
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